Here's what an organized Substack / HN plagiarism campaign looks like

I posted this comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162930, but it deserves a standalone submission. Someone is plagiarizing blog posts at scale, using many of different throwaway HN accounts and fake Substack blogs. They appear to be going through old Hacker News submissions, finding the source pages that were submitted, and then publishing those posts on new Substack blogs that they created. The most recent one, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162930 , was stolen from https://web.archive.org/web/20110416092916/https://jinfiesto.posterous.com/stop-telling-students-recursion-is-hard https://web.archive.org/web/20110416092916/https://jinfiesto... Here's when the real post was submitted to HN, back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440364 OP, would you care to share more about your scam? What do you get from it? Here's other examples where they did the same thing using different Substack blogs and different HN accounts - this is just a subset: 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337525 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081175) 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425331 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091392) 13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3154446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3154446 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150949)